depicted Fey's actual life.

That seems a right wing thing--the inability to tell fact from fiction.

It's always a given with these folk. Obsessive-compulsive, neurotic, unhinged - call it what you will.

You mean Christopher Nolan, who makes good movies, is going to cast someone as short as Elliot Page to play a larger-than-life character?

But it’s just a movie.
They’ll be acting.

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Nolan must want to exert artistic license here, since there's no definitive historical evidence proving Homer's existence. That said, I'm still willing to see his film.

from DeepMind AI ...

Whether the poet Homer existed is unknown, a mystery known as the "Homeric Question." While traditionally regarded as the blind, 8th-century BCE author of the Iliad and Odyssey, most scholars believe the poems are products of a long oral tradition, potentially composed or compiled by multiple people rather than one individual.


Traditional View:
Ancient Greeks believed Homer was a real, blind itinerant poet from Ionia.

Modern Scholarship:
Many experts argue that the extensive, formulaic nature of the poems suggests they evolved over centuries of oral storytelling by many poets, not just one.

The Debate:
There is no definitive historical evidence proving his existence. Some argue "Homer" was a placeholder name for the tradition, while others hold that a single, foundational genius shaped the final narratives.

Alternative Theory:
Some scholars suggest the poems were written down later, possibly by a group of scholars in Athens or Alexandria, rather than by a single poet.

Ultimately, the existence of a single, historical person named Homer remains unproven

Played Genghis Khan in the 1956 The Conqueror.

And Mickey Rooney as Mr Yunioshi in Breakfast At Tiffany’s.

And so on.

No one really... um... those guys were iconic actors. Uh. I believe Genghis Khan was part white I believe. Ummmmm. You had very iconic... Yeah they were white, but aren't you being racist? Why can't we be inclusive of white men. Jeez. Liberals are so intolerant!"

Standing by Jesus, at the foot of the cross, saying
“Surely this was the son of God"

One cannot unhear that John Wayne drawl

Aw-haw

The Year of Living Dangerously, won Best Supporting Actress Award in 1983. Great movie. Only person to win an Oscar for playing someone of the opposite sex. Anyways...

And The Odyssey features Sirens and a Cyclops and all sorts of other mythical figures which, frankly, I don't remember. Does anyone have any strong feelings about which "race" the Cyclopses (?) were?

Without him, many would never have known of these adventures

were likely the same race as Stewart Rhodes.

It was just maga blood vessels bursting. Now, now. We must watch our blood pressure.

You're erasing my fantasy culture, even though I'm not even Greek or make believe!"

Unfortunately Finnerty is real. A real bagacrap.

because every Christofascist wngnut in the country is going to be lined up for those. I know the subject matter, and they're all going to be deeply offended by them, but they'll still be lined up.

Who the hell knows what Helen of Troy would have looked like in the mind of the presumed author of 'the Odyssey,' Homer?

"No, Alex - and Patroclus didn't look like Garret Hedlund (nor was he his "nephew" )."

The Odyssey is a fictional account of an historical event.
Helen of Troy didn't exist, no did Achilles, no did Odysseus, let alone all the fictitious creatures that appear in the book. This movie is simply a reboot of the original.
Rob Finnerty doesn't seem to know the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

Please don't tell him that Captain Marvel was originally a man, or that Jesus was probably brown skinned.
And, Santa Claus...well, we won't go into that.

Homer took liberties with history to support his fictional epic.

And I can’t even with the rest of the stupidity. It’s fucking FICTION.

Her parents were a god and a mortal woman (in some versions a goddess) who transformed herself into a swan.

Anybody saying this fictional character is "definitely white" is hilarious.

Your shitty, worthless turd of a president and his ass kissing goons are rewriting our constitution and our rights. Go shove your pity party where it doesn't shine.

My very red east Tennessee town is building a new IMAX theater and the first movie to be shown is The Odyssey. This is great.

the "Brojan" horse crowd. LOL.